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Entries for December, 2008

Intensity Academy continues their success

Whether it’s local, regional, or national attention, the folks at Intensity Academy have a good thing going with their products. Case in point is this article from Tampabay.com that talks a little about some hot sauce shopping you can do this holiday season:
Six gifts that come with local flavor
Way to go, guys!!

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Winners Announced For The 2008 Hot Pepper Awards

The second annual The Hot Pepper.com Awards has finally come to a close and the winners announced. Lots of familiar faces popped up as winners (Defcon Sauces, W.O. Hesperus, Heather’s Heat and Flavor, etc etc) and some new companies appeared as well. So be sure to jump on over to one of the best if [...]

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The job search goes to the Charm City

Some of what has kept me so busy (and away from attention to this blog) has been the ongoing quest for me to secure a job for when my Anesthesiology residency ends in June 2009. I’ve done quite a bit of interviewing so far, and the next stop on my journey takes me back [...]

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Reality TV meets Fiery Foods

This is an awesome opportunity for a Fiery Foods Family out there to get their chilhead stylin’ on network TV! This information was in the most recent edition of the newsletter from Dave DeWitt of Fiery-Foods.com:
“Wife Swap” Seeking a “Fiery Foods Family”
I had email from Jessica Jorgensen, Associate Producer, Casting of this popular reality [...]

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The blog explosion for hot & spicy food has cooled

We were just going down our Blogroll for some of our favorite hot and spicy food site…only to realize that many of them have either morphed into something else or are dormant altogether. Don’t believe us? Consider this:
The Hot Sauce Blog is now a membership-only site that doesn’t carry nearly the volume of [...]

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A follow-up for Operation Sauce Drop

About six weeks ago, we published an article about Operation Sauce Drop, which we feel is a truly worthy cause. Well, it seems that those efforts have not gone unnoticed…as evidenced by this article from the Birmingham Community Examiner:
Give our troops a taste of home for the holidays
by Luann Dawkins, Birmingham Community Examiner
“I received [...]

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Passow Is Disappointed By Pure Death

Picked this one up at the Weekend of Fire from the Blair’s booth that Joe and Linda were manning for Blair. This was the Jolokia product that Blair hinted to me in our interview at the 2006 Fiery Foods show and I had been eagerly anticipating its release. Now, I generally love a lot of [...]

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Exotic hot and spicy food in the Bluegrass

We usually don’t post reviews for restaurants where we’ve yet to eat, but this one jumps out at us. Lexington, KY is not only the site of Joe’s alma mater, but is also the possible destination for us once he completes his residency in Anesthesiology. Lexington used to be the place to find [...]

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Passow Decides To B More Nutz

The first big inventions/discoveries were fire and the wheel. Next, beer was created. From the yeast in beer we got bread. “How can we make bread better?” they asked. Sliced bread was the answer. Now many people say that there have been a few inventions “better than sliced bread”, square watermelons, soap on a rope, [...]

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